My boyfriend's mom is going to be starting an eBay account soon (non-pony, but I'm not sure exactly what she'll be selling). I'll be helping her out as much as I can with photos, descriptions, packing, etc since I've done plenty of online sales, but neither of us have ever used eBay for selling. Tracking & insurance will be required on everything (I believe she mostly has nicer things to sell), but beyond that we're not really sure what eBay requires/we should keep in mind/etc.

I remember hearing a lot about eBay holding new sellers' funds. How long do they hold it for? How are we supposed to cover shipping?

We probably won't offer international shipping since its such a pain, but in case we do for something I know the Global Shipping Program is rubbish. Is there anything else?

Also, should she make a few purchases before starting to sell since this will most likely be a brand new account? Or would it be better if we used my eBay account? Its a few years old with a handful of positive feedback spread out (I think it has 10ish and is about 3 years old).

It just dawned on me yesterday that my cardboard box full of G3 ponies and accessories probably isn't the best way to store the poor things, and now I'm worried about them getting marks from being all piled on top of each other. They're not wrapped in paper etc, just sitting on top of each other the same way they were shipped to me. If it matters (color etc), these are the ponies and accessories (the page has photos and names). There's a good chunk of white ponies in there.

But the issue is I don't really have anywhere else to put them. :/ There's no room to put them on display anywhere. My G1s are in wooden drawers with a separate tissue on each one, but I'm all out of wooden drawers. I might be able to clear space in a plastic drawer and put them there, but would they be okay there? I could swear I've heard something about keeping them in plastic, which is why my G1s are in wooden drawers.

I'm sort of looking for opinions and advice here.


I've always been very against giving G1s to young kids, but less so about baity ones (the baity-er they are, the more okay with it I am). But back in November I met my boyfriend's little sister for the first time. She's four years old and just the cutest thing. She was absolutely terrified of me until she saw me finger combing the hair of Baby Firefly, my travel pony, to relax. After that she adored me. I spent so much time with her balanced on my knees while she looked through the photos of my ponies on my site over and over and over again. I even let her play with Firefly for a bit, while being carefully supervised of course.

Her favorite ponies of mine were Baby Firefly and my "Eagle pony" (a custom I sold a while back). I'd really love to get her a baity baby Firefly of her own; I'm sure she'd love it (and I'm positive her mom would be fine with it). I'm really particular about how I want the Firefly to be - very short mane and tail so it can't get messed up, no bite marks or missing limbs, paint rubs/scratched preferred, marks are preferred (but no written names), scratches/scrapes on the body are okay, no trace of mold/pindot/smooze is okay and I need photos of the inside of the pony to be sure. And on top of that I of course plan to clean the Firefly better than I've ever cleaned a pony before, and probably multiple times just to be sure. I'm not even sure she'll still like MLP by the time I have money and find a Baby Firefly I approve of, but if I get the chance I'd really like to do this for her. But, as a collector, I'm still kind of torn about it. :/

Has anyone removed an Ai doll's (Jun Planning) faceup? My girl arrived at a faceup artist's today, but they haven't been able to remove her faceup using any of their normal methods. They do have acetone that they haven't tried yet, but neither of us is sure how an Ai doll would react to that (they're made of plastic, I think ABS but I'm not positive) so we wanted to see if anyone had wiped an Ai before.

Oh my gosh I'm so excited!!! I was browsing the Disney Store site for some Frozen stuff and came across these dolls. I saw Hawaii first so I thought it was maybe some kind of Lilo doll, but nope! I've always hated the ride but I can't get enough of these dolls.

I absolutely need Kenya and India, but France and Japan are so cute! And so is Hawaii! And England is a redhead! Augh I want them all. x.x

Hawaii
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Holland
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Kenya
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Japan
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France
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India
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England
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I never got any help with this. If you think this is okay, keep it to yourself because I don't care. I'm here to get help reporting this person.

From the 17th:
I'm so angry right now. I bought a brand new set of stickers from a seller on the 11th and paid on the 12th. They have 824 feedback and its 100% positive. Given that the stickers are old and rare, I assumed they were sending them in a bubble mailer with tracking (which is exactly what I wanted). The stickers were originally released in November 2001, and were re-released in November 2006 so they're hard to find. They know the stickers are rare and have a TON of rare old stationary type items for sale, all with a similar shipping price.

This is what the listing says about shipping, nowhere are normal white envelopes mentioned. The seller's description doesn't actually mention shipping at all, aside from saying that they will ship internationally and combine shipping.

Today my boyfriend checked the mail and handed me a normal white envelope. I'm expecting multiple packages, no envelopes, so I was pretty confused. But as soon as I opened it I realized what it was. The stickers were placed in cardboard and mailed in an envelope with two stamps on it. It was not sent internationally or even from that far away (I'm in Idaho, the seller is in Oklahoma).
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Thankfully the stickers are okay, but I'm pissed. If I remember correctly, eBay does not enforce things related to overcharged shipping? But I'm still contacting the seller and hoping they're give a partial refund to save themselves a bad star rating/feedback, since they obviously seem to care about their feedback (or at least used to). But I don't know how to word it. :/ Does anyone have any advice?


Yesterday, I got a response:
The seller refunded me $1 (so they still pocketed $2) and said its 'shipping and handling' and basically told me they overcharge on shipping to make up for fees. Isn't that not allowed, admitting to adding extra to shipping to cover fees? And implying they overcharged me to get gas money too? Should I report them, and if yes how?
"The purchase price paid for the stickers is $6.99 - on my end there are listing fees, final value fees from ebay, and yet another fee from paypal to receive money from each buyer every time I sell an item."
"I work 6 days a week 8-10 hours a day and still take the time to make sure purchased items are mailed the next day after payment, driving out of my way to the post office (gas is quite expensive these days) rather than leaving things in my mailbox to be mailed so I am sure they get sent out."


How do I proceed?

Multiple people/posts have said I can report this person for multiple reasons, how do I do that? Should I try responding to their message and telling them that when someone pays for a certain type of shipping, you ship it that way (they completely ignored that concern and just wrote it off as 'oh I have ~handling~ fees therefore this is okay to do')? Should I make no contact/leave no feedback until I hear from eBay? Will I have to call eBay about this or is there any way I can report this person online?

A few months back a close friend of mine decided to offer a lot of stuff she owns up for trade/sale, as she'll be going to college soon and needed to downsize. She got in contact with someone who had a LOT of G3s (ponies, accessories, and playsets). My friend doesn't have any interest in ponies so she asked me if I was interested in anything they had. I spent an hour or two IDing every pony they had (2-3 times as many as I ended up getting), making a list, and deciding which ones I liked the most. After a while I stopped hearing about it, so I figured the trade fell through and shrugged it off. Either way my friend just trying was super sweet of her.

But then one day, completely out of the blue, she sent me this picture. She also told me that this was just the ponies, not the rest of the stuff. A little while later she called me on Skype and showed me every individual pony and accessory. I managed to remember a grand total of like five names! Go me.
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Not long after she received the ponies, she left for a trip to the UK. I don't know exactly how long she's staying, but its already been a while. I was a little bummed she hadn't been able to send the ponies before she left but it wasn't a big deal. Her mom ended up being willing to drop the fully packed box off at the post office, so today I woke up this big box waiting for me!
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So many ponies!!! My friend is such a sweetheart that she re-ID'd every single pony, wrote their name on a slip of paper, and attached it to them with a rubber band. She also secured their hair to their legs (and removed hairstyles). She was just thrilled she could help me! <3
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But wait, there's more!
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Here are the ponies that were grails of mine! (However lots of the ponies were on my wishlist!)
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But I won't leave any curious eyes hanging! Here are all the individual shots! No one has taken a trip to the pony spa yet because bending down on the floor taking all these photos did not please my back. xD Can you spot a trend in ponies I like? Its called "white bodies" and they are beautiful, hahaha.

Ponies part 1

Ponies part 2

Accessories/playsets

And for the extra curious, the Neopets plushies she also included!


I'm so grateful to have such a sweet friend! <3 Before this package I had around 5 G3s and wasn't a huge fan of them. In general they're really gorgeous and I love their detailed symbols, but G1 and G2 are my favorites so I've never even bought a G3. But this huge box of ponies really helped change my mind! I've always liked G3s, but now I might start specifically looking for them too. Luckily I don't have any spending money! xD

Although this may not have worked out for my friend completely. She kept one or two ponies for herself and really started taking a liking to them. Uh oh. xD

I'm not sure how interested anyone else is in these little babies, but I figured I might as well give a heads up that I just uploaded some comparison photos to Flickr of the two types. If anyone wants to see any of the babies with a certain type of doll (the "collection" link in my sig lists every doll I own) or see anything else specific, just let me know!

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Mattel vs Simba Newborn Skintone Comparison by AsaziAsazi, on Flickr